Sunday, March 30, 2008

Search Engine Experiment

Who was the creator of the "lovebug" virus? www.ask.com
Onel de Guzman is the suspected author of the LoveBug virus which originated in the Philippines.

Who invented the paperclip? www.ideafinder.com
John Johan invented the paper clip and William D middlebrook inveted the machine that created the paper clip. 1899, November 9.

How did the Ebola virus get its name? www. stanford.edu
The Ebola virus was named after the small river in Northern Zaire, Africa near the village where the first isolate of the virus was obtained in 1976. More cases occurred in Zaire in 1977 and in Sudan 1979.

What country has the largest recorded earthquake? www.ask.com
1960 - Chile. This eartquake caused death and destruction as far as Japan and the Philippines and had an estimated magnitude of about 8.

How many kilobytes in a terabyte? www.ask.com
One terabyte is equal to 1.073742E+09

Who is the creator of email? www.digpile.com
Ray Thomansen

What is Storm worm and how many computers were infected by it? www.ask.com
Storm worm is a backdoor trojan that takes over you computer, denies access to services, identity theft, email span, shuts down security defenses on desktop, sends out copies of itself to your contacts and has effected anywhere between 250,000 to 1 million computers.

What is the best way to contact the Prime Minister of Australia? www.ansearch.com.au
Via Australia Post

What does the term Web 2.0 mean? www.ansearch.com.au
Web 2.0 is a second generation of available web services that allows people to collaborate and share information online

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